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JONATHAN SWIFT
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Royalist Anglican in Ireland:
Oppressor and oppressed:
BRITAIN
ANGLO-IRISH
IRELAND

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1686: graduates at Trinity
1689: Secretary to Temple: tutor to Esther Johnson
1694: ordained priest in the Church of Ireland
1704: A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books

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: London. First a Whig, then a Tory. Friendship with som of the major English writers and politicians.
1713: Dean of St.Patrick
1724: Drapier’s Letters
1726: Gulliver’s Travels

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1729: A Modest Proposal
1742: declared insane.
1745: died. bequeathed a third of his income to found St Patrick's Hospital for the mentally ill

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Jonathan Swift wrote his own epitaph::
Hic depositum est Corpus
IONATHAN SWIFT S.T.D.
Hujus Ecclesiæ Cathedralis
Decani,
Ubi sæva Indignatio
Ulterius
Cor lacerare nequit,
Abi Viator
Et imitare, si poteris,
Strenuum pro virili
Libertatis Vindicatorem.
Obiit 19º Die Mensis Octobris
A.D Anno Ætatis 78º.

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William Butler Yeats:
Swift has sailed into his rest.
Savage indignation there
cannot lacerate his breast.
Imitate him if you dare,
world-besotted traveller.
He served human liberty.